Other places · London
Yuri Gagarin
In or near City of London.
Yuri Gagarin — Public artwork (statue) by Anatoly Vovikov.
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About
Yuri Gagarin is a other in london. Established 2011. (Monument in London.) According to Wikipedia: "The Statue of Yuri Gagarin in Greenwich, London, is a zinc statue depicting the cosmonaut wearing a spacesuit and standing on top of a globe. The 3.5-metre (11 ft) high statue is a replica of an original by Anatoly Novikov in Lyubertsy, where Gagarin was trained as a foundry worker. It was a gift to the British Council from the Russian space agency Roscosmos as a part of several cultural events commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight."
- Coordinates
- 51.4768, -0.0007
- Established
- 2011
Sources
- osm: n2738840352 (ODbL)
- wikipedia: Statue of Yuri Gagarin, Greenwich (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- commons: Statue of Yuri Gagarin at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.jpg (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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